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Dr Simon Munzu joined the United Nations in 1995 as a UN Volunteer. Career positions that he held in this international organisation from that point until retirement in 2016 included: Assistant-Secretary-General and Principal Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Cote d’Ivoire (2014 to 2016), Director of Political Affairs in the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (2011 to 2012), Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and Chief of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (2004 to 2011), and Senior Policy Adviser on human rights and development at the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York (2001 to 2004).

Furthermore he took on special assignments with the United Nations as: a member of the interdisciplinary team of UN experts that developed the peace consolidation, rule of law, human rights, and truth and reconciliation programme for post-conflict Sierra Leone; the representative of OHCHR in a UNDP-led inter-agency mission to develop the peace consolidation and recovery programme for the Democratic Republic of Congo following the signing of the Final Act (Sun City Agreement) of 2 April 2003; the leader in June 2014 of a multidisciplinary team to develop a strategy for the implementation of ‘urgent temporary measures’ (UTM) mandated by the UN Security Council prior to the establishment of the United Nations peace mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

In January 2018, the UN Secretary-General appointed Dr Munzu as a member of the International Commission of Inquiry for Mali. The Commission submitted its report in June 2020. He served twice as a member of the Commonwealth Observer Group for short-term observation of general elections in Malawi (2019) and Kenya (2022).

Simon Munzu is fluent in English and French. He holds a doctoral degree in law from the University of Cambridge, as well as a master’s degree in law and a bachelor’s degree in law, both from the University of London. A member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, he was called to the Bar in England several decades ago.

Since the onset of the ongoing conflict in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon in 2016, Dr Munzu has campaigned for the holding of a national conference on the Anglophone problem, to be preceded by a preparatory meeting of Anglophones alone. He has consistently maintained this stand on the ‘Anglophone problem’ in Cameroon for the past 30 years.